Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby ordered his deputies to search almost 900 studnets for drugs in April. This month he his own son was arrested for allegedly dealing drugs. (WALB)

A Georgia sheriff already under indictment for ordering a drug search involving nearly 900 high school students is back in trouble after allegedly interrupting a state investigator who was questioning his teenage son about dealing drugs.

Zachary Lewis Hobby, 17, was taken to his father's jail and interrogated after he was arrested on Oct. 9. He faced charges of felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and criminal trespass, according to a document obtained by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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That's when his parents, Sheriff Jeff Hobby, 48, and Pam Hobby, burst onto the scene, according to the letter from Paul Bowden, Tifton judicial circuit district attorney, to Gov. Nathan Deal.

"Sheriff Hobby and his wife, who is also an employee of the Worth County Sheriff's Office, barged into the room ostensibly to invoke the seventeen year old's Fifth Amendment Rights for him (sic)," Bowden said.

The younger Hobby had already been informed of his right against forced self-incrimination and had chosen to speak to the state investigator, Bowden said.

The investigator stopped interviewing Zachary Hobby after his father interrupted, Bowden said. Afterall, the state investigator was conducting the interrogation in Sheriff Hobby's jail.

Bowden also noted that Hobby's son was housed in his father's jail instead of being transferred to another jail.

It is unclear how authorities will respond to Jeff Hobby's interruption during his son's interrogation.

On Oct. 3, Jeff Hobby was indicted on four counts because of his department's drug search at the high school. Hobby was formally accused of one count of violation of oath by a public officer, one count of commission of crime with the offense of sexual battery, and two counts of false imprisonment, according to the charging documents.